Overview of the events of 1835 in literature
Overview of the events of 1835 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1835 .
January 21 – Abolitionist Susan Paul officiates at a meeting of the New England Anti-Slavery Society (NEASS) in Boston.[1] Later in the year, her Memoir of James Jackson becomes the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of a free black child in the United States.
February 17 – William Colenso prints the first book in New Zealand, a translation into the Māori language of the Epistle to the Philippians and Epistle to the Ephesians .[2]
February 28 – The Finnish language epic poetry Kalevala , compiled by Elias Lönnrot from oral sources, is first published in the Grand Duchy of Finland , becoming influential in the Fennoman movement .[3]
c. early March – John Stuart Mill 's maid accidentally burns the unpublished first volume manuscript of Thomas Carlyle 's The French Revolution: A History .
May 8 – The first of Hans Christian Andersen 's 168 fantastic stories are published as Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn ) by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, including "The Tinderbox " ("Fyrtøiet") and "The Princess and the Pea " ("Prinsessen paa Ærten"). On December 16 a second collection including "Thumbelina " ("Tommelise") is published.
July – Bertelsmann is founded by Carl Bertelsmann as a religious printer and publisher in Prussia.
November/December – The German Federal Convention prohibits circulation of work by members of the "Young Germany " group of writers (Karl Gutzkow , Heinrich Heine , Heinrich Laube , Theodor Mundt and Ludolf Wienbarg ) and the exiled poet Heinrich Heine .
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January 20 – Lucy Hamilton Hooper , American writer (died 1893 )
January 29 – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), American children's writer (died 1905 )
February 14 – Mary Spear Nicholas Tiernan , American writer (died 1891 )
February 22 – Lillian Spender (née Headland), English novelist (died 1895 )
March 25 – Minnie S. Davis , American author and mental scientist (died 1927 )
March 28 – Mary H. Gray Clarke , American writer (died 1892 )
April 3 – Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford , American writer (died 1921 )
April 10 – Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster , Scottish novelist and essayist (died 1913 in literature )
April 10 – Louise Chandler Moulton , American writer and critic (died 1908 )
April 25 – Emma Scarr Booth , English-born American author (died 1927 )
May 3 – Maria I. Johnston , American author, journalist, editor and lecturer (died 1921 )
May 8 – Augusta Jane Evans , American author (died 1909 )
June 5 – Amanda Kerfstedt , Swedish novelist and playwright (died 1920 )
June 10 – Florence Anderson Clark , American author, newspaper editor, librarian, and university administrator (died 1918 )
June 26 – Thomas W. Knox , American journalist and travel writer (died 1896 )
June 29 – Celia Laighton Thaxter , American writer (died 1894 )
July 1 (probable year) – Mary Catherine Chase (Sister Mary Francis de Sales), American nun and writer (died c. 1905)
July 18 — Annie Russell Wall , American historian, writer, teacher (died 1920 )
October – Emilia Marryat , English children's writer (died 1875 )[5]
October 4 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon , English novelist (died 1915 )
November – Shoqan Walikhanov , Russian Kazakh historian and folklorist (died 1865 )
November 30 – Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), American novelist and humorist (died 1910 )
December 4 – Samuel Butler , English novelist (died 1902 )
unknown date — Henrietta Gould Rowe , American litterateur and author (died 1910 )
January 1 – Mátyás Godina , Hungarian hymnist and educational writer in Prekmurje dialect of Slovenian (born c. 1768)
March 30 – Richard Sharp ("Conversation Sharp"), English poet, critic and wit (born 1759 )
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April 2 – István Ballér (Števan Baler), Slovene hymnist and Lutheran minister (born 1760 )
April 17 – William Henry Ireland , English poet and forger of Shakespeariana (born 1775 )
June 18 – William Cobbett , English journalist and social commentator (born 1763 )
August 23 – Isaac Pocock , English dramatist (born 1782 )
December 17 – Pierre Louis Roederer , French politician, economist, and historian (born 1754 )
December 25 – Antoine Ó Raifteiri , Irish poet writing in Gaelic (born 1779 )
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